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Life on Earth 250 Million Years from Now – How Will the World Have Changed?
What will Earth look like 250 million years from now? In this video, we journey into the deep future to explore a day on our ...
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Earth’s Hidden Heartbeat Is Slowly Creating A New Ocean
Beneath Ethiopia, the Earth’s mantle is pulsing like a slow, steady heartbeat, slowly tearing Africa apart and laying the ...
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A continent in the making: How lava bursts from Earth’s mantle are creating a new ocean in Africa
In the Afar Depression of East Africa, a remarkable geological transformation is unfolding, with scientists revealing that ...
Geologists suggest early continents formed through mantle plumes, not plate collisions
Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...
Lava bursts from Earth's mantle are creating a new ocean in Africa
In East Africa's Afar Depression, scientists have discovered that fresh lava from deep within the Earth's mantle is driving ...
Scientists Just Found Earth’s Pulse – And It’s Tearing a Continent Apart
Researchers mapped a pulsing mantle plume under Afar that channels molten rock upward, stretching Africa’s crust until it ...
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Deep Earth pulses beneath Africa are tearing the continent apart
The vertical movement of the mantle is one of the driving forces that brings about large-scale geological changes to the ...
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A Journey to Prehistoric Time: What Earth Was Like When Dinosaurs Ruled
Around 252 million years ago, Earth faced a catastrophic event that changed the course of life on our planet forever. This mass extinction event wiped out nearly 96% of marine life, 70% of land ...
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A newly forming ocean may split Africa apart, scientists say
"This has profound implications for how we interpret surface volcanism, earthquake activity and the process of continental ...
A Fragment of Earth’s Original Crust Still Exists—and It’s Buried in Canada
Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...
World's Oldest Rocks Discovered in Northern Canada
At the time, the Earth's surface was hot enough to bake pizza, but rocks still solidified. Those in this area formed almost ...
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Earth's mantle chemistry has remained stable for billions of years, according to scientists
They reveal that the chemical composition of the deep mantle has remained almost intact since the Earth's formation 4.5 ...